Migration: the great journeys, sentence 17
Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.
Who acts: Dams · What happens: rest, make · To what, where: migration
This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 rivers | case |
| 3 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dams | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 roads | punct |
| 5 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dams | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 buildings | punct |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 buildings | amod |
| 8 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dams | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 loss | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 loss | det |
| 11 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dams | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 places | case |
| 13 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 places | amod |
| 14 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 loss | nmod |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buildings | nmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | Dams on rivers and roads and new buildings along the way and the loss of resting places | migration | today | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset migration=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:17.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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